Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. In this week’s program we’re going to learn about FieldSync from Jen Cochran. We visited yesterday to talk about their mobile, cloud-based, technology and applications for agriculture. FieldSync™ builds software solutions for businesses that want to “lower costs, improve efficiency, increase revenue, and gain valuable oversight and visibility to their operations.” One of the …
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Livestock Advertising Network is pleased to welcome two new sales representatives, Debby Nichols and Cathy Campbell. The Mosaic Company has launched three new social media sites aimed at sharing expertise and building a peer community for retailers and growers seeking to advance their crop nutrition knowledge and elevate the role of micronutrients in their crop production systems. The National Corn …
New Holland Helping Farmers and Ethanol
Farmers who provide corn for ethanol plants can get special discounts on New Holland equipment and help the ethanol industry at the same time. New Holland district sales manager Bob Kacher says their American Ethanol Producers Club is an initiative they developed two years ago with Growth Energy to help both growers and the ethanol industry. “It offers the opportunity …
Ethanol’s Positive Impact on Rural Economy
Nearly 200 area farmers attended a New Holland American Ethanol Producers Club event Wednesday at Absolute Energy, an ethanol biorefinery located near Lyle, Minnesota. The event, which was the 12th held at ethanol plants around the country this year, was designed to introduce producers who provide corn for the plant to the partnership between New Holland, Growth Energy and American …
What is Conservation Agriculture Worth?
The Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) Dialogues are right around the corner. The panel discussion will focus on the economic and ecological benefits of agricultural conservation systems. Conservation tools, measurements for economic and ecological benefits, long-term economic returns and their effects on producers’ decision-making processes and conservation trends that will affect agriculture in the next five years are all topics …
Celebrate National Teach Ag Day
Today is National Teach Ag Day. One day out of 365 to celebrate school-based agricultural education and to encourage agricultural education advocates to share with others the great career opportunities in agricultural education. The national ag holiday is for anyone who wants to share the story of agricultural education’s importance and effectiveness in the United States and also encourage students …
Mmmmm, Bacon!
The inaugural Bacon Bowl, presented by Petit Jean Meats, is just a month away. Saturday, October 26, in Fayetteville, Arkansas at the Northwest Arkansas Mall is the day to see if your personal bacon-inspired dish is worthy of a trip representing the Bacon Bowl at the 6th Annual New Orleans Food Fest. Spots are going fast for the event so …
Beef Checkoff Sets FY2014 Plan of Work
The Cattlemen’s Beef Board will invest about $38.5 million into programs of beef promotion, research, consumer information, industry information, foreign marketing and producer communications in Fiscal Year 2014, if the recommendation of the Beef Promotion Operating Committee is approved by USDA, following review by the full Beef Board. In action concluding its two-day meeting in Denver this week, the Operating …
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National Ag Day is March 25, 2014, and there is still time for you to align your organization with this high-profile event. Grain Systems Inc., a global brand of AGCO , announced that it has purchased Johnson System Inc., a leading manufacturer of catwalks, towers and support structures based in Marshall, Michigan. As part of an organization-wide revitalization of its …
A Big Bowl o’ Ice Cream
As summer draws to a close, I look back (once again) and think where did it go? When we were kids, I thought the summer months went by in a flash, but maybe that’s because I was stuck at home with a long “to do” list that my mom religiously wrote each morning before leaving for work. It included dreadfully …